1817
Frederick Douglass was born at Tuckahoe, near Easton, Talbot County,
Maryland.
1825
Was sent to Baltimore to live with a relative of his master.
1833
_March._ Was taken to St. Michaels, Maryland, to live again with his
master.
1834
_January._ Was sent to live with Edward Covey, slave-breaker, with
whom he spent the year.
1835-36
Hired to William Freeland. Made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from
slavery, Was sent to Baltimore to learn the ship-calkers trade.
1838
_May_. Hired his own time and worked at his trade.
_September 3_. Escaped from slavery and went to New York City. Married
Miss Anna Murray. Went to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Assumed the name
of "Douglass."
1841
Attended anti-slavery convention at New Bedford and addressed the
meeting. Was employed as agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery
Society.
1842
Took part in Rhode Island campaign against the Dorr constitution.
Lectured on slavery. Moved to Lynn, Massachusetts.
1843
Took part in the famous "One Hundred Conventions" of the New England
Anti-slavery Society.
1844
Lectured with Pillsbury, Foster, and others.
1845
Published _Frederick Douglass's Narrative_.
1845-46
Visited Great Britain and Ireland. Remained in Europe two years,
lecturing on slavery and other subjects. Was presented by English
friends with money to purchase his freedom and to establish a
newspaper.
1847
Returned to the United States. Moved with his family to Rochester, New
York. Established the _North Star_, subsequently renamed _Frederick
Douglass's Paper_. Visited John Brown at Springfield, Massachusetts.
1848
Lectured on slavery and woman suffrage.
1849
Edited newspaper. Lectured against slavery. Assisted the escape of
fugitive slaves.
1850
_May 7._ Attended meeting of Anti-slavery Society at New York City.
Running debate with Captain Rynders.
1852
Supported the Free Soil party. Elected delegate from Rochester to Free
Soil convention at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Supported John P. Hale for
the Presidency.
1853
Visited Harriet Beecher Stowe at Andover, Massachusetts, with
reference to industrial school for colored youth.
1854
Opposed repeal of Missouri Compromise.
_June 12._ Delivered commencement address at Western Reserve College,
Hudson, Ohio.
1855
Published _My Bondage and My Freedom_. _March_. Addressed the New York
legislature.
1856
Supported Fremont, candidate of the Republican party.
1858
Established _Douglass's Monthly_. Entertained John Brown at Rochester.
1859
_August 20_. Visited John Brown at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
_May 12 [October]._ Went to Canada to avoid arrest for alleged
complicity in the John Brown raid.
_November 12._ Sailed from Quebec for England.
Lectured and spoke in England and Scotland for six months.
1860
Returned to the United States. Supported Lincoln for the Presidency.
1862
Lectured and spoke in favor of the war and against slavery.
1863
Assisted in recruiting Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts
colored regiments. Invited to visit President Lincoln.
1864
Supported Lincoln for re-election.
1866
Was active in procuring the franchise for the freedmen.
_September._ Elected delegate from Rochester to National Loyalists'
Convention at Philadelphia.
1869 [1870]
Moved to Washington, District of Columbia. Established [Edited and
then bought] the _New National Era_.
1870
Appointed secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission by President
Grant.
1872
Appointed councillor of the District of Columbia. [Moved family there
after a fire (probably arson) destroyed their Rochester home and
Douglass's newspaper files.] Elected presidential elector of the State
of New York, and chosen by the electoral college to take the vote to
Washington.
1876
Delivered address at unveiling of Lincoln statue at Washington.
1877
Appointed Marshal of the District of Columbia by President Hayes.
1878
Visited his old home in Maryland and met his old master.
1879
Bust of Douglass placed in Sibley Hall, of Rochester University. Spoke
against the proposed negro exodus from the South.
1881
Appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.
1882
_January._ Published _Life and Times of Frederick Douglass_, the third
and last of his autobiographies. _August 4._ Mrs. Frederick Douglass
died.
1884
_February 6._ Attended funeral of Wendell Phillips. _February 9._
Attended memorial meeting and delivered eulogy on Phillips. Married
Miss Helen Pitts.
1886
_May 20._ Lectured on John Brown at Music Hall, Boston.
_September 11._ Attended a dinner given in his honor by the Wendell
Phillips Club, Boston.
_September._ Sailed for Europe.
Visited Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, 1886-87.
1888
Made a tour of the Southern States.
1889
Appointed United States minister resident and consul-general to the
Republic of Hayti and _chargé d'affaires_ to Santo Domingo.
1890
_September 22._ Addressed abolition reunion at Boston.
1891
Resigned the office of minister to Hayti.
1893
Acted as commissioner for Hayti at World's Columbian Exposition.
1895
_February 20._ Frederick Douglass died at his home on Anacostia
Heights, near Washington, District of Columbia.
In a few places in the text of _Frederick Douglass_, bracketed words
have been inserted to indicate possible typographical errors, other
unclear or misleading passages in the 1899 original edition, and
identifications that were not needed in 1899 but may be needed in the
twenty-first century.